BPA-Boomville Power Administration

  • Founded by Roosevelt
  • By the Columbia river
  • Turbines that created electricity
  • Got electricity from the turbines spinning

NIRA-National Industry Recovery Act

  • Passed by congress June 16, 1993
  • Granted trade and permitted working standards

USHA-United states house Authority

  • In the early 20th century

PWA-Public Work Association

  • Passed in 1933
  • Got many jobs for people
  • Worked on construction sights
  • Built dams, schools. and hospitals
  • Harold Ickes started it

CCC-Civilian Conservation Corps

  • Started in 1932
  • Hired young men to do the job
  • During the great depression to help people find people jobs
  • Ended July 1, 1992
  • Helped build roads, water ways, planted trees

CWA-Cival Works Administration

  • Hired teachers
  • Mostly men
  • Got shut down a year later because it was to expensive
  • Created jobs

FDIC-Federal Deposit

NLRB-Natioanl Labors Relation Board

  • Made to control riots
  • Prosecuted them
  • Group of five people

FHA-Federal housing Act

  • Created in 1934
  • regulate the rate of interest
  • made it so it was cheaper for people to buy houses
  • had to meet special requirements which were though to be racists

SEC-Security

  • Controlled trading between bonds and stocks
  • Set up in 1934
  • Set up by Roosevelt

FLSA-Fair Labor Standards Act

  • Minimum wage-25 cents
  • If you were 18 you couldn't work for dangerous jobs

TVA-

  • Created in 1933
  • Government bought land on the Tennessee  river
  • Provided electricity

Federal Emergency Relief Administration

SSA-Social security Act

  • Drafted by Roosevelt
  • For the disabled
  • Main reason was to fight unemployment

NRA-Natioanl Recovery Association

  • Established in 1933

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